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Israel and Palestine
Context
This page lists my academic and opinion papers on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. My anarchist leanings magnify my suspicion about any movement seeking a nation state, but my primary interest is ending injustice. Despite inevitable complexity, supporting Palestinian efforts to end Israeli oppression is the priority. I long ago reached the conclusion that Zionist efforts to create a state that's both Jewish and democratic cannot succeed. I remain concerned about the people I know, and know about, on both sides of the line.
After high school I spent 1966-67 in Israel on a program organized by the Zionist youth group Young Judaea. In 1972 I returned to Israel with a group I co-founded that planned to build a new kibbutz. Four months later I left Israel. Except for a few newspaper columns critical of Israel after the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres, I avoided the topic for many years, no longer a Zionist but not yet taking the next step.
In 2001 I returned to the issue. I visited Israel and the West Bank for a month in 2004-2005, half the time with Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. I began a blog to write about the visit and posted a lot of photos.
In 2006 I visited again, for ten weeks. After a week with a Health and Human Rights Delegation from Jewish Voice for Peace, I taught a five-week seminar at Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheva on Psychology, Law, and Justice, lectured at Al Quds University in Abu Dis (just east of Jerusalem's Separation Wall), and ran workshops for law-and-society researchers at Birzeit University near Ramallah. Lots more photos.
List of some of the books on the subject I've been reading.
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2008
2007
2006
2005
Radio Interview
2004
2003
Media Interviews
- War Forum with Rebecca Love. Brookline Access TV, Brookline, Massachusetts (6/18/03)
- Censored History with Bonnie Perkins, KPFZ 104.5 FM Community Radio, Lake County, California (1/4/03)
2002
Repression: The issue that started me on this topic again
Generating discussion in Brookline, Massachusetts
Anti-Semitism and other issues the peace/justice left should address
Other Commentaries
Radio Interviews
- Jean Feraca Show, Wisconsin Public Radio: Israel/Palestine and the Left (6/6/02)
- Chuck Morse Conservative Radio WROL-AM 950 Boston (5/3/02)
2001
Years of Avoidance....
1982-83
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